November 27 Historical Events

The following events took place on November 27. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 50 events. Showing 31 - 50.

• 1968
  Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball, for the Kentucky Colonels in an ABA game against the Los Angeles Stars.
• 1971
  The Soviet space program’s Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.
• 1973
  Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On December 6, the House will confirm him 387 to 35).
• 1975
  The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
• 1978
  In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
• 1978
  The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is founded in the city of Riha (Urfa) in Turkey.
• 1983
  Avianca Flight 011: A Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid’s Barajas Airport, killing 181.
• 1984
  Under the Brussels Agreement signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain, the former agreed to enter into discussions with Spain over Gibraltar, including sovereignty.
• 1987
  On a routine flight between Taiwan and Mauritius, South African Airways Flight 295 experiences an in-flight fire, apparently starting at around 23:48 on the 27th. After just under 16 minutes (leading into the early hours of November 28), the plane crashes and kills all 159 on board.
• 1989
  Avianca Flight 203: A Boeing 727 explodes in mid-air over Colombia, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground. The Medellín Cartel will claim responsibility for the attack.

• 1991
  The United Nations Security Council adopts Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
• 1992
  For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andrés Pérez in Venezuela.
• 1997
  Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
• 1999
  The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand’s history.
• 2000
  In the Canadian federal election the Liberal Party of Canada wins its third consecutive election with a gain in the number of its members.
• 2001
  A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
• 2004
  Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
• 2005
  The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
• 2006
  The Canadian House of Commons approves a motion tabled by Prime Minister Stephen Harper recognizing the Québécois as a nation within Canada.
• 2009
  Nevsky Express bombing: A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, derailing it and causing 28 deaths and 96 injuries.